Nanita : The saddest thought is how many other Anne Franks were there in the one million children murdered by the Nazis

maxi : Francine Prose is insightful when she declares that Anne Frank was an artist. She was not just a teenage girl wtiting a diary of events. The Anne Framk book gets lifted to an even higher esteem with that acknowlement. Ms Prose comments have inspired me to read her book. Thanks to PBS for its support.

zelmo : It was neat to see Francine Prose in person in this segment. She wrote one of my favorite books--"Bigfoot Dreams" which I highly recommend.

EU fundee : Did someone doctor the diary after ww2 ended?

ltownsend : I was just looking at one of my favorite books by Francine Prose today-"The Lives of the Muses". Fabulous writing. I highly recommend any of her work. She's very talented.

John Shaplin : Voting Democracy Off The Island; Reality TV and The Republican Ethos by Francine Prose Harpers, March 2004 "Observant readers may already have noted that the guiding principles to which I have eluded- flinty individualism, the vision of a zero-sum society in which no one can win unless someone else loses, the conviction that signs of altruism and compassion are signs of folly and weakness, the exaltation of solitary striving above the illusory benefits of cooperative mutual aid, the belief that certain circumstances justify secrecy and deception, the invocation of a reviled common enemy to solidify group loyalty- are the exact same themes that underlie the rhetoric we have been hearing and continue to hear from the Republican Congress and our current administration."